Consultancy to establish UN Women’s programme on Economic Empowerment of Women
UN Women’s first new Strategic Plan 2011 to 2013, identifies priority programming areas and concrete targets related to strengthening women’s economic empowerment and financing gender equality. UN Women will strengthen gender responsive implementation of the decent work agenda, including social protection, and to adopt and implement measures to increase women’s access to, and control over, productive assets, including work in the formal and informal economies. UN Women will also work closely with Ministries of Finance, Planning and Statistics to support national planning and budgeting processes that promote gender equality, to enable committed governments to build their capacity in gender analysis, gender budgeting, and use of sex disaggregated data for more gender responsive public policy and budgets. To achieve this, UN Women’s Pacific Regional Office will launch a new multi-year Women’s Economic Empowerment Programme from 2011, which includes strategic interventions, advocacy, research/analysis, and communications and stakeholder networking activities. A four- pronged programme on economic empowerment has been designed to addresses the outcomes and resolutions of successive Pacific Ministerial Meetings on Women and Triennial Conferences of Pacific Women, including contributing to SPC’s harmonized gender statistics and monitoring of gender equality throughout the Pacific region, especially addressing the need for sex-disaggregated data to clearly show the gender impact of poverty and including unpaid work as part of the national accounts. The Proposed four-year programme, will be implemented in partnership with Regional Organisations, governments, women’s rights organisations and other NGOs, the private sector and other stakeholders, under the four strands of:
Empowering women through law and other regulatory reforms to access productive resources:
Empowering women producers, entrepreneurs and migrant workers:
Empowering women by increased financing for gender equality:
II. Consultancy: UN Women Pacific seeks the services of a suitably qualified and experienced consultant to serve as interim Economic Security and Rights (ESR) Programme Coordinator, to establish this programme over the next 5 months
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Under the overall supervision of the RPD and the direct supervision of the Chief Technical Adviser, the Economic Security and Rights (ESR) Programme Coordinator is responsible for the implementation of the first phase of the five year project design, which is the ESR Resource Mobilisation and Programme Establishment Strategy, as developed through the ESR Scoping Study. 1. Identify appropriate donors, and what funding such a programme would qualify for:
2. Concept notes: Develop concept notes for the different aspects of the five year program 3. Identify and consult with potential donors for various programme components 4. Develop the complete project documents to the standard required for approval at UN HQ 5. Engage and build relationships with other thematic programmes of UN Women work 6. Engage and build relationships with key partners as identified in the Phase 1 plan, including attending meetings, presenting for, representing UN Women on issues of Deliverables:
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Applications should include:
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UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. |
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